Abstract
As part of a Health Canada’s commitment to Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Patient-Centred Practice, this project called Interprofessional Collaboration: Culturally-informed Aboriginal Health Care project enhances cultural awareness of a specific Aboriginal community and interprofessional teamwork in health care. A unique asynchronous web-based learning and research initiative, the project brought the teachings and beliefs of Elders from what is known as the North Shore, an area north of Lake Huron between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada to undergraduate health education students in a variety of disciplines. This paper describes the educational development process of the resulting online module as well as findings and changes made based on the pilot offering of Interprofessional Collaboration: Culturally-informed Aboriginal Health Care by Laurentian University in Sudbury, ON. Since the pilot, the module has been translated into French.
